Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Blogger #5
2pac- Dear Mama
(Verse 1)
Even thought the crack fiend, mama you always was a black queen, mama I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man. You always was committed. A poor single mother on welfare tell me how you did it? There's no way I could pay you back, but the plan to show you that I understand, you are appreciated, basically what the verse is saying that his mother was on drugs, but tupac she still was his queen and no matter what struggles they went through like being on welfare etc. She always had food on the table for him, and he appreciates her, for all she's done for him.
(Hook)
Lady don'tcha know we love ya? Sweet lady place no one above ya. Sweet lady, don'tcha we love ya? Basically this hook is trying to say is that this person which Tupac's mother, he's telling her that him and his sister love her very much and that no one would be placed above her because she is special to them.
(Verse2)
Now ain't nobody tell us it was fair no love from my daddy cause the coward wasn't there. He passed away and I didn't cry, cause my anger, wouldn't let me feel for a stranger. They say I'm wrong and I'm heartless, but all along I was looking for a father he was gone. Now this was Tupac's deepest verses talking about how his father wasn't there to love him like he should, he resented him and when Tupac's father died, he had no emotions he didn't know who he was, basically he was a stranger to him.
Blogger #1
Christian Quintero
Professor Reyes
English A
1 November 2015
According to a 2011 count, the homeless population in just the city of Los Angeles was an estimated 26,000. That includes men, woman, teens, senior citizens, veterans, and even some children. Only about two thirds are actually sheltered. That leaves about another 8,000 people that do not have a home and are barely getting enough in life to get by. The city of Los Angeles has declared its state of emergency. Since 2013 the homeless population has grown 12% and seems to not be slowing down anytime soon. Local Los Angeles leaders have committed to contribute $100 Million to shelter and give other basic needs of living to the homeless (Stewart, LA Times). It’s good to see that people are taking action to help the issue instead of going around it and coming up with a way to get rid of them.
In my opinion, I feel that this type of action should have happened sooner when the population of the homeless was not so large. Now that it is at its worst the city of Los Angeles has decided to help minimize the issue. It is ridiculous that roughly 26,000 people are on the streets. They aren’t all criminals or bad people with a bad habit either. The way I look at it is that they have had an unfortunate amount of luck that put them where they are in life. For example, I was grocery shopping with my mother when I was about 14 and we saw this homeless man outside a supermarket. We had decided to help and we bought him some food, water, deodorant, and shampoo. He was so thankful and told us he had been outside the store the whole day and only received about 4 dollars in change. He mentioned he was not asking much but that there was a few generous people helped him out but by far the best thing was the food and supplies we gave him. We talked for a bit and he told my mother he worked for a small insurance company that had went under and as time went on he slowly lost everything. This man wasn’t an alcoholic or a druggy or mentally ill. He was just unlucky in his life. This goes to show that my first thoughts of this intimidating man were completely wrong. He was actually a kind hearted and humble person trying to get by. I have to think that there a lot of stories are just like his and should be considered when seeing a homeless person because the majority of them are not what they are made out to be.
Professor Reyes
English A
1 November 2015
Homelessness Article
Homelessness in California has been a growing issue in the United States. So much in fact that the state of California is now in a “State of Emergency” due to the issue of the homeless population in our California cities. The time to help these people is now. Every day we see an individual that is homeless but are afraid to reach out or afraid to approach because of some of the stereotypes that society has placed on the homeless. Some of the stereotypes include that they are alcoholics, criminals, drug abusers, or they are mentally ill. All of these are stereotype threats towards the homeless in the way that they falsely label all of the homeless to be one or more than one of those stereotypes. It creates an unknown fear towards them for the reason that society has made them out to be a certain way. They are people just like you and I but how many times do we walk past a homeless person and not even acknowledge them. Does anybody really deserve to be treated that way?According to a 2011 count, the homeless population in just the city of Los Angeles was an estimated 26,000. That includes men, woman, teens, senior citizens, veterans, and even some children. Only about two thirds are actually sheltered. That leaves about another 8,000 people that do not have a home and are barely getting enough in life to get by. The city of Los Angeles has declared its state of emergency. Since 2013 the homeless population has grown 12% and seems to not be slowing down anytime soon. Local Los Angeles leaders have committed to contribute $100 Million to shelter and give other basic needs of living to the homeless (Stewart, LA Times). It’s good to see that people are taking action to help the issue instead of going around it and coming up with a way to get rid of them.
In my opinion, I feel that this type of action should have happened sooner when the population of the homeless was not so large. Now that it is at its worst the city of Los Angeles has decided to help minimize the issue. It is ridiculous that roughly 26,000 people are on the streets. They aren’t all criminals or bad people with a bad habit either. The way I look at it is that they have had an unfortunate amount of luck that put them where they are in life. For example, I was grocery shopping with my mother when I was about 14 and we saw this homeless man outside a supermarket. We had decided to help and we bought him some food, water, deodorant, and shampoo. He was so thankful and told us he had been outside the store the whole day and only received about 4 dollars in change. He mentioned he was not asking much but that there was a few generous people helped him out but by far the best thing was the food and supplies we gave him. We talked for a bit and he told my mother he worked for a small insurance company that had went under and as time went on he slowly lost everything. This man wasn’t an alcoholic or a druggy or mentally ill. He was just unlucky in his life. This goes to show that my first thoughts of this intimidating man were completely wrong. He was actually a kind hearted and humble person trying to get by. I have to think that there a lot of stories are just like his and should be considered when seeing a homeless person because the majority of them are not what they are made out to be.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Blogger #2
Brittany Garcia
Professor Reyes
My first impression of both Jamilla Lyiscott and Anzulda , is that both describe how languages depending on home school friends have rules . When and where they can use those languages. Jamilla says she uses the language because her's was stolen and raped and is why her English is broken . Anzulda talks about a how she is punished for speaking in her native tongue , how she was punshied for trying to tell the teacher how to correctly say her name . Both talk about trying to overcome being able to talk more then one language and being judged for it depending where they are. How they have to conform to where they are to blend in and not make a big scene , now I see how it is to have a different identity among others . The way I have always seen it people are all different , if we all are different why do we have to talks to the same ?
Monday, December 7, 2015
blogger 5
RUNAWAY LOVE BY LUDACRIS FT. MARY J BLIGE
the genre is :conscious hip hop/R&B
the song is about three young girls that are preadolescents who are going through some though times, and the only solutions for them is to runaway. each three girls have different scenarios, common problems that most of the teens goes through in life. instead of seeking for help they rather runaway , becoming homeless, and even worst they can end up dead. He is pretty much telling us some of the scenarios teens goes through, and the consequences in which they can result in. instead of dealing with the problems at home , having to be abuse by the people around you, and not being able to no one because they wont belive you, most people would rather run away, runaway from there problems.
he is discussing my issue because all these three girls were being abuse by someone in there home, and where scared of telling someone, and when they told someone they where being ignores. when they found the bruises on the girl, they would make up excuses to cover their abuser. many time when someone is being abuse, they sometime give up and just runaway, Ludacris feels like them sometimes, in which he can just leave everything and just runway.
Ludacris is a musician which is best known for hip hop and R&B, and for someone to do a song that discusses a big issue featuring mary j bligde, another artist in which can make something noticeable like they do. they where giving awareness on some of the abuses girls go through, and how some of the girls end up being runaways. .
runaway love is a well known song who was wriiten by several people like, Ludacris, polow da Don, keri hillson, slick rick, and Doug E. Fresh, there are several people that help produce this song. the song was also converted into a music video , which had a a lot of detail, and it went well with the lyrics, and it showed a lot about my social issue.
the genre is :conscious hip hop/R&B
the song is about three young girls that are preadolescents who are going through some though times, and the only solutions for them is to runaway. each three girls have different scenarios, common problems that most of the teens goes through in life. instead of seeking for help they rather runaway , becoming homeless, and even worst they can end up dead. He is pretty much telling us some of the scenarios teens goes through, and the consequences in which they can result in. instead of dealing with the problems at home , having to be abuse by the people around you, and not being able to no one because they wont belive you, most people would rather run away, runaway from there problems.
he is discussing my issue because all these three girls were being abuse by someone in there home, and where scared of telling someone, and when they told someone they where being ignores. when they found the bruises on the girl, they would make up excuses to cover their abuser. many time when someone is being abuse, they sometime give up and just runaway, Ludacris feels like them sometimes, in which he can just leave everything and just runway.
Ludacris is a musician which is best known for hip hop and R&B, and for someone to do a song that discusses a big issue featuring mary j bligde, another artist in which can make something noticeable like they do. they where giving awareness on some of the abuses girls go through, and how some of the girls end up being runaways. .
runaway love is a well known song who was wriiten by several people like, Ludacris, polow da Don, keri hillson, slick rick, and Doug E. Fresh, there are several people that help produce this song. the song was also converted into a music video , which had a a lot of detail, and it went well with the lyrics, and it showed a lot about my social issue.
bloger enrty 4
my social issue is child abuse, and I believe half of the money should be donated to this social issue, because for one reason our children are our future. the children don't have a voice to speak up for them. there are thousands of children allover the world being abuse, and little is being done about it. the money should be donated to the foster shelter, and the organizations that help the children who were and are victims of these types of abuse. the money should be use to bring awareness of all types of abuse, the symptoms, and the help they can provide. they should bring awareness on how people who speak up if they see a child being abuse, can save the child life. I believe the money should go this social issue, but as well as other social issue, that as well need to be heard of, and need as much help possible like child abuse
Monday, December 7, 2015
Blogger #2
We all have different languages that we speak, so many different cultures in the United States. Like Mexican, Indian, Chinese all different types of people etc. Some of us might use a lot of slang when we speak our languages, and some might speak with no slang at all. It all comes with the culture and different parts of cities that you are from, in the country you were born in. Having a different language to speak is always useful, especially when your talking about something that you don't want someone to understand. Those are things that people have to deal with on a daily basis listening to different languages spoken.
Blogger #2
We all have different languages that we speak, so many different cultures in the United States. Like Mexican, Indian, Chinese all different types of people etc. Some of us might use a lot of slang when we speak our languages, and some might speak with no slang at all. It all comes with the culture and different parts of cities that you are from, in the country you were born in. Having a different language to speak is always useful, especially when your talking about something that you don't want someone to understand. Those are things that people have to deal with on a daily basis listening to different languages spoken.
blogger entry 2
we all have different language, mainly according to where you where born and raise.in my opinion , I believe we all have our own language with its own definition. There are many words that have different meaning to different cultures. it can mean something positive to a culture while it means negative toward another culture. every culture has a unique language, which distinguishes them for example with Anzaluda, she had over heard some Cuban females using a figure a speech that they use, but with an opposite meaning. also just because they all speak Spanish doesn't mean they are all from the same background. they have different type of Spanish and its all according the where you are born, and how you are raised. I speak various of language, English Spanish, Spanglish, I feel like I speak all types of Spanish, because when ever I met someone new , they tend to misunderstand me when I speak to them in Spanish.
we all have different language, mainly according to where you where born and raise.in my opinion , I believe we all have our own language with its own definition. There are many words that have different meaning to different cultures. it can mean something positive to a culture while it means negative toward another culture. every culture has a unique language, which distinguishes them for example with Anzaluda, she had over heard some Cuban females using a figure a speech that they use, but with an opposite meaning. also just because they all speak Spanish doesn't mean they are all from the same background. they have different type of Spanish and its all according the where you are born, and how you are raised. I speak various of language, English Spanish, Spanglish, I feel like I speak all types of Spanish, because when ever I met someone new , they tend to misunderstand me when I speak to them in Spanish.
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